Display-cabinet.



L. w. WELSH.

DISPLAY CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1909.

@54g9@2w Patented NW. 80, 1909.

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LYMAN W. WELCH, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

DISPLAY-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 16, 1909.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

Serial No. 472,713.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN IV. IVELCII, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists of the features and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a pair of wardrobes slightly sep arated from each other, the View being a perspective one, and one side of the end wardrobe of the series being slightly removed from its position. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the relation of the pilaster of one cabinet to the adjacent strip of the next cabinet.

In these drawings, 1 indicates the frame of the wardrobe having a door 2 carried by a stile 3 to which the door is hinged at 4:, the said stile being adapted to have sliding movement along the inner side of the side wall of the cabinet or wardrobe.

Within the display case or wardrobe an upper supporting rod 5 is arranged upon which the garment hangers ma be supported, and a substantially similar lower support is employed at 6. These supports are attached to the back wall of the cabinet or wardrobe, as shown, the upper rod being also supported from the inner side of the upper part of the cabinet. The lower rod is supported by a cross bar 7 attached at 8 to the side of the wardrobe and extending horizontally across the front of the same, its other end being permanently attached at 9 to a rod or hanger 10 depending from its point of support at 11 at the top of the cabinet. This hanger 10 is located at a slight distance from the path of movement of the door and the sliding stile, so that the door may have free sliding movement into and out of the cabinet, its position being also such that the door, when drawn out, may be turned on its hinges 4 to close the front of the wardrobe. The connection at 9 and one which leaves the lower portion of l the casing entirely free.

I have shown in the drawing a part of a second wardrobe or cabinet slight] re moved from the cabinet located ad acent thereto for the purpose of illustrating the pilaster joint between the cabinets. In making this joint, I employ a solid pilaster extending from the separable top 11 of the case to the separable base 12 thereof, this pilaster being marked 13 and consisting of a single piece secured to one side of the section and adapted to receive the strip 12 of the adjacent section so'that the edge of the pilaster extends partly over the edge of the adjacent strip 12' and presents the appearance of a solid pilaster between the sections, but leaving a stop for the door at 15, Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination in a cabinet composed of sections, a vertical strip on one section and a vertical strip on the adjacent section, the latter strip having a recess in its side face with a front portion overlapping the front edge of the strip of the first named section, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a cabinet having a door and havin a strip at its front corner, an adjacent mem er or side having a pilaster carried thereby at its front partly receiving the strip on the cabinet, but leaving a portlon exposed to serve as a stop for the door, substantially as described.

In testimon whereof, I afiix my signature in presence 0 two witnesses.

LYMAN W. WELSH. 

